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On the Transformative Nature of a Hat.
Here is a true thing: some people can wear a hat; some people can’t. This is not a categorical truth. It’s not a universal truth. It’s a situational truth. Much depends on the hat. Much depends on the person. Most of all it depends on the weird inexplicable chemistry between hat and person.
The right hat—even if it’s a dorky hat—can make you look cool. The wrong hat—even if it’s a cool hat—makes you look like a dork. It doesn’t matter if you were cool or a dork before you don the hat—the hat changes everything. Sometimes—and this is really the most remarkable thing—sometimes the transformation isn’t immediate. Sometimes the transformation is as slow as the tide, an incremental but completely inevitable shift (possibly, like the tides, influenced by the moon) from one state to another.
This young sloe-eyed woman in a snap brim fedora is immediately dorky. But then—oh man, but then—the current somehow shifts and an unhurried low amplitude wave of cool forms and it leisurely sweeps over her until she exudes a sort of Sinatra-meets-Patti Smith insouciance. This young woman puts on a hat and—really, this defies logic; it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but it’s undeniably true—she puts on that particular hat and she gradually becomes so very cool she makes snow fall right out of the night sky.
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